My 100th Post since August, 2011

Prior to the blog, I emailed a journal to about 100 people.  It was more difficult because it took more effort to insert fewer pix.  Also, Hotmail limited recipients to 50 email addresses so I had to send it twice.

As much as I complain about Blogger, this is progress.

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The students at Montana State make their mark.  We see this from all over Bozeman, but here is the best shot.

We toured the Museum of the Rockies, across from  MSU.

I'm the fossil in the green shirt.  The other one is a T-Rex named Big Mike.

If we take the shot from the building looking out, here comes another Big Sky.

I'll just post a couple of dinosaur shots.  If some seem out of focus, they're not.  But in low light, no flash, the camera becomes a bit unsteady for a 2 second exposure.  That's why tripods were invented.  But who's going to schlep a tripod?

I don't know what the one below is called, but Satanosaurus sounds about right.

A small one.

A big T-Rex.

A bit of nostalgia found in a small town...an A & W Root Beer stand.  I had to stop by.  While I was parking the car, Susanne went in and ordered a Black Cow.  She got a blank stare from the young lady behind the counter.  (Kids, these days.)  Only when she settled on a root beer float did we get what I expected.

Time takes the romance out of things.

Bozeman Friday night tango was at a tea house on Main St.  A couple of pics.

That's Gary on the left, Sadie in the striped skirt with her partner Dennis, and Sam on the right.

Susanne's partner Michael is an MSU student.  He arrived late, changed shoes, then made a beeline to cabaceo Susanne.

My partner, Suzanna, was the evening's birthday girl...a snippet of her birthday waltz.

Some miscellaneous shots.

Susanne is really good at seeing these scenes, then framing them.  This is an old house next door to our place...has a big back yard. Now it is offices for attorneys & court reporters.

The French cafe is a bit of a disappointment.  Yes, the pastries are first rate but their French dishes are to be avoided.  We had breakfast there.  Susanne's Crepe Madame was the worst ever.  The eggs on top were just shy of being cremated.  My Crepe Jambon et Fromage was a mere shadow of the Parisian version.  The crepe was thin & the fromage seemed to have been dispensed from a salt shaker.  The street crepe guy off the Bastille applies it by the handful.

We have tango there Sunday noon.  We'll try the onion soup, going directly to dessert.  Report: The onion soup wasn't that great, Susanne's strawberry pastry was.

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It's now Sunday afternoon.  Tomorrow is pack day.  It'll take longer since we're pretty much settled in here.  Then Tuesday a 6:30am yoga class, check out of the apt., then drive up to Great Falls to a hotel for three days.

After that is uncertain because of the fire at Glacier.  The main road through it is partially closed meaning it can't be used to cross the Park...our plan, of course.

A map (click HERE) shows the fire (red) and the closed road (yellow).  Zoom in a bit (The + over -, upper left corner) to get rid of the text across the most interesting part.

We may go directly to Kalispell after Great Falls.  We have an apartment in Missoula Aug. 7 -11 but we're open in between.

That's it for now...the blog may go silent for a couple of days as we move around & get settled.